by Kile Smith | Jan 27, 2020 | CDs, Choral music
Texts were flying in from the Grammys in L.A. last night while we watched Nellie, on Baroque cello, at Forest and Main in Ambler, play an energetic concert with Musicivic Baroque. While The Arc in the Sky with The Crossing did not win for Best Choral Performance...
by Kile Smith | Dec 30, 2019 | CDs, Choral music, Radio
The Arc in the Sky is receiving more and more airplay from around the country and even internationally! At the end of the year, these are the stations we know about so far. A big Thank-You from me, The Crossing, and Navona Records to the hosts, program directors, and...
by Kile Smith | Nov 20, 2019 | CDs, Choral music, Spirituality
Canticle helps propel Blanton Alspaugh to a 2020 Grammy nomination for Producer of the Year, Classical. Canticle is a 65-minute work setting The Spiritual Canticle of St. John of the Cross. For chorus, three cellos, and percussion, it is listed with seven other CDs...
by Kile Smith | Nov 20, 2019 | CDs, Choral music
Received texts of “Congrats” this morning, which puzzled me, as I didn’t know what I was being congratulated for. But then the news started slipping out that The Crossing received two nominations for Best Choral Performance for the 2020 Grammy...
by Kile Smith | Oct 1, 2019 | Choral music, new music
The Dawn’s Early Light. SATB, Cello, Four Guitars, 19′. Text: Life Among the Piutes (1883), Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (c.1844–1891), ed. K.S., and “The Star-Spangled Banner” (1814), Francis Scott Key (1779–1843). Commissioned for Conspirare and Craig Hella...
by Kile Smith | Sep 7, 2019 | CD Reviews, CDs, Choral music
Laurence Vittes praises The Arc in the Sky, the CD The Crossing, directed by Donald Nally, released this summer on Navona, in a thoughtful October 2019 Gramophone magazine review. My description of the work as a “65-minute pilgrimage for unaccompanied...
